Social Cognitive Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to transform health care with more... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

August 11, 2023
Article

How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership

By: Nitin Nohria

Although the CEO role comes with power, pay, and privilege, it also involves emotional labor, as leaders feel the toll of making divisive and unpopular decisions. This aspect of the job has become more challenging the last few years. This article offers leaders four... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Work-Life Balance; Emotions

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May 17, 2023
Article

Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team

By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz

Passion is often heralded as the key to a fulfilling and successful career, but the authors’ recent research suggests that it can also come at a cost: Feeling passionate about work can lead to exhaustion and even burnout. Through studies with more than 700 employees... View Details

Keywords: Burnout; Emotions; Work-Life Balance; Employees

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01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

disseminated. We also are thinking hard about how we might extend the career and professional development group to be more helpful to our graduates (with a special focus on alumnae) through the various transitions that might occur over... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

extra $4.5 billion in annual funding; a $100 million contingency fund for emergencies; and a $1 billion annual research and development fund to be coordinated by a Pandemic Product Development Committee.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

Profile

Matt Segneri

led him to Mayor Cory Booker's Newark office where he helped shape local economic development strategies. Another involved managing the Social Capitalist Awards, a collaboration between Fast Company Magazine... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Is AI OK?

favored white males, hunted for clues to candidates’ soft skills over dinner or coffee, and hired people based on résumés that revealed little about job fit. Yet Polli knew that scientists possessed a battery of tests for accurately and objectively evaluating View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

situations, majority voting can have a "dark side," i.e., result in groups making choices inferior to those made by individuals acting alone. We develop a model to predict how two types of social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

a company to develop new productivity software was a complete non-starter. No sane VC would or should fund a venture to compete with the Microsoft monopoly." Even though his project is in the early stages, over 33,000 people... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Nov 2022
News

How Companies Can Partner with Nonprofits

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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Emerging Topics Emerging Topics Shared Value Measurement Shared Value & Investors Emerging Topics Creating shared value, a framework for View Details

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

partnering with BIT and applying behavioral insights to solve real world policy and managerial problems. “One way to help people make better decisions is to change the choice environment—or the way in which decisions are presented,” Luca says. “There’s a growing body... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

which enables Web sites to protect themselves from online attacks; Diagnostics For All, a nonprofit that develops low-cost disease diagnostics for the developing world; and Finale, a Boston-area chain of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

the same type of work he had done at New Orleans & Company, an economic development corporation, the summer between his two years at HBS. Bagala was able to take that summer job because of the Social... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose - Justice System Reform, Education Parity, Health & Wellness Access, and Community Outreach &... View Details

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Jeremy Andrus

chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

research model, we go out in the field to develop and test hypotheses about the managerial challenges identified and shared by the nine PELP districts, write cases and notes that are relevant to addressing the challenges, and then deliver... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

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Ralph Johnson

next round of recruiting. The Social Enterprise Initiative posted the Chicago opportunity I ultimately took. Most importantly, HBS has shown me that anything is possible—as long as I understand what the expectations are and that I’m... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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